For Mac Eyes Only 423 – The Temple of Essential Apps

Season 18, Episode 3 (#423)

On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Eric present FMEO’s 11th list of Essential Apps for Mac users and announce a new Essential Apps segment for 2024! Delving into the news, Eric shares thoughts on the AirDrop crack, Apple’s case for selling the Apple Watch 9, and checks out Apple’s new patent for using light to secure AirDrop.
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For Mac Eyes Only – Essential Apps: A New Hope

Season 17, Episode 2 (#401)

On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Eric present our Increasingly Inaccurately Named 10th Annual list of Essential Apps for Mac users, plus a few bonus essential apps that just missed landing on this year’s list.
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For Mac Eyes Only – Silly Rabbit, Tricks Are For Mac Users!

Season 12, Episode 8 (#368)

On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Eric dive deep into their bag of Mac tricks to share their favorite “hidden” gems of macOS including a whole sack full of bonus Mac tips and tricks along the way!
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For Mac Eyes Only – Feeling a Little EFI

Season 12, Episode 2 (#362)

On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: In part 1 of a 2-part marathon episode, Mike and Eric discuss the EFI Firmware warning headlines that broke on Friday, what it means to you, and what you should do to protect your Mac.
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For Mac Eyes Only – Automate This!

Season 11, Episode 5 (#347)

On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Eric’s Thanksgiving Day “micro-palooza” of listener (and host) questions including how to roll back from Sierra to El Cap and using Automator to solve every day problems in macOS.
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For Mac Eyes Only – Of Olympic Proportions

Season 10, Episode 18 (#342)

On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike is joined by Eric and Brian to discuss portable Mac needs, Microsoft dredging up old battles, macOS Sierra and the dangers of running beta apps, and when app developers make right with crossgrades.
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For Mac Eyes Only – In the Aftermath of Macstock

Season 10, Episode 17 (#341)

On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike is joined by Gary in this “FMEO Classic” lineup to discuss the “not being there perspective” of Macstock 2016, important security patches in OS X 10.11.6 and iOS 9.3.3, what the discovery of Eleanor malware means to you, and a great app for backing up your Google account to your Mac.
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For Mac Eyes Only – Reaction Time: Apple’s WWDC 2016 Keynote

Season 10, Episode 15 (#339)

On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike, Dave and Melissa provide their first-hand reactions* to Apple’s announcements during the 2016 WWDC Developer Conference keynote including updates to watchOS, expanded channels and remote for tvOS, the Mac’s “new” OS dubbed macOS Sierra, iOS 10, plus a new educational learning environment for the iPad called Swift Playgrounds.

NEWS:

> watchOS 3
> tvOS Update
> macOS Sierra
> iOS 10
> Swift Playgrounds

Additional Links to Know

> TheMacMommy
> Apple Keynote Podcast
> App Camp for Girls
> Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 30th Anniversary
> Desktop Curtain
> PowerPhotos
> One Piece
> IBM PCjr
> Arduino
> Raspberry Pi
> Woz becomes Australian Citizen

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> iMore
> The Verge
> TechCrunch

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Running Time: 2:32:59

* Though this episode was recorded live as the keynote progressed, some portions of the recording have been edited for time and/or content.

For Mac Eyes Only – Future Mac

Season 10, Episode 14 (#338)

On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Dave discuss rumors leading up to WWDC 2016, Backup and WiFi tips, Are unmounted drives safe?, Xfinity without the phone, New life for old Mac Pros.
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For Mac Eyes Only – Gimme Back My Mac!

Season 10, Episode 13 (#337)

On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike, Dave, and Brian discuss resurgent ransomware concerns, the Apple Music file deletion problem, two cool new alternate keyboards for iOS, rotating video in iMovie, and troubleshooting Brian’s home AirPort network.
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